Use these guides in accompaniment with the Netflix Our Planet series episodes to help shape supplementary discussions and activities within your 5th-12th grade learning environment. Includes many discussion prompts and activities that can accompany the topic of each episode.
This post gives an example of a young learner who is being encouraged to develop a sense of ownership of his learning and offers educators strategies to build ownership in their learners.
PBS LearningMedia is your destination for direct access to thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources. It builds on the strength of public media and is designed to improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement.
Resources are aligned to Common Core and national standards and include videos and interactives, as well as audio, documents, and in-depth lesson plans. You can browse by standards, grade level, subject area, and special collections. You can also favorite and share resources with your class and colleagues. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia is free for PreK-12 educators and students.
Advertises itself as "instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources." Videos, games, audio clips, photos,lesson plans, etc.
The PBS Wisconsin Education team creates and curates great educational resources, while connecting with Wisconsin’s most valuable resource – teachers. Our network of resource developers, teaching and learning advisers includes partners like PBS, but more importantly, it includes innovative educators and organizations throughout Wisconsin – a network that grows stronger with every project and idea.
Explore our high-quality, cost-free PK-12 resources at pbswisconsineducation.org.
A collection of educational media resources that features the stories of people who have shaped Wisconsin's history. Stories span a range of eras, areas of impact, and identities of individuals featured. Themes in the collection focus on community builders, innovators of industry, justice seekers, land protectors and leaders in government.
With each story you'll find:
- A short animated video (3-8 minutes)
- Questions to spark reflection, connection, and conversation
- A short digital biography book (accessible as a Google slide deck) with per-page audio, glossary terms, images, and maps
- A historical image gallery
- An educator guide with extension activity ideas and standards supported
This is the Future Ready Library Plan for the Portage Community School District. It lays out the 8 gears (and central gear of student centered literacy) individually. Each gear page discusses the focus, highlights what we are already doing to address the gear, and future plans to address areas of weakness. The plan is meant to be fluid in its website form that we will re-evaluate yearly to best meet our district needs.
This slide show is from my recent presentation at WEMTA. It discusses how we are leveraging the library for professional development opportunities in the middle and high school. The PD in the iC/LC program is part of a joint effort to provide more personalized professional learning that will inspire our staff to adopt and promote the future ready mindset. It is also a key part of our efforts to support staff and students through the library programming and resources since the library is ideally situated to work cross-categorically and across the age ranges. Examples and resources are linked inside the presentation for viewers to use and remix as best fits their learning community.
An image showing facets of PICOT. Those facets include P: Population/Problem: Who are the patients that will be studied (e.g., age, race, gender, disease, or health status, etc.) and what problem is being addressed (e.g., mortality, morbidity, compliance, satisfaction, etc.)?
I: Intervention: What is the specific intervention to be implemented with the research population (e.g., therapy, education, medication, etc.)?
C: Comparison: What is the alternative intervention that will be used to compare to the treatment intervention (e.g., placebo, no intervention, different medication, etc.)?
O: Outcome: What will be measured and how will it be measured and with what identified goal (e.g., fewer symptoms, increased satisfaction, reduced mortality, etc.)?
T: Time Frame: How long will the interventions be implemented and data collected for this research?
Featured in section 9.4 of the Nursing Management and Professional Concepts textbook.
This resource provides a template for teachers to use in order to add focus, efficiency, and effective data
use to their PLC meetings. Six keys for effective team inquiry are emphasized so that by using them,
school leaders can ensure the most effective PLC process. School leaders should provide 1) an
articulated vision for PLC inquiry, 2) a purposely planned process, and 3) an effectively-prepared staff for
PLCs and 4) appropriately calendared meetings, 5) appropriately documented findings, and 6) meetings
that are routinely monitored and coached. In this resource, users will find the “PLC Inquiry Protocol”
designed around four essential PLC questions, which provides a template that strengthens and
streamlines teachers’ collaborative inquiry.
A Director of Curriculum and Instruction of a member school district discusses the benefits of working through a regional approach to innovation.
Emigration is when someone leaves their home country and moves to live in a different country. During the Great Hunger, many Irish people left Ireland for good. People emigrated for many reasons. Some left because there was not enough food, and others because their landlord had evicted them. Many landlords evicted their tenants to avoid paying for their care. Some of these landlords also paid to put the Irish living on their land on a boat headed for the United States, Australia, England or Canada.
Included in this Lesson Plan:
Background historical information
Background primary source documents and activities related to Irish emigration in the 19th century
A Pack Your Suitcase worksheet which can be used individually or for a group
activity, and requires some math and discussion, and recording with a pencil
A comparison of 19th century and modern US immigration
A model citizenship test
In this video from Wide Angle, visit the Pankisi Valley, a no-man's-land in the Northeast of Georgia that has become home to the rebels and refugees of the Chechen war.
The No Child Left Behind Act is comprised of four pillars, one of which is “proven education methods.” This paper attempts to provide a historical context for the development of evidence-based education by examining its foundation in medical practice. Next, the rationale for evidence of educational effectiveness based on a scientific “gold standard,” the randomized controlled trial (RCT), is explored and the relative limitations of this approach are outlined. Finally, important distinctions between medicine and education are explained.
7th Grade Math Teacher Chris McCloud from the School of the Future in New York gives us a new idea on how to call on students and ensure participation. McCloud tapes 1 playing card on each student desk and has the same set of playing cards in his hand. Throughout a lesson, Chris flips a card to determine which students is going to answer a question. If students cannot answer the question, he does'nt allow them to say "I don't know." Instead, he requires the student to share where they are stuck and flips the next card to see if someone can help the student who is stuck.
Students apply concepts of disease transmission to analyze infection data, either provided or created using Bluetooth-enabled Android devices. This data collection may include several cases, such as small static groups (representing historically rural areas), several roaming students (representing world-travelers), or one large, tightly knit group (representing urban populations). To explore the algorithms to a deeper degree, students may also design their own diseases using the App Inventor framework.
Students apply several methods developed to identify and interpret patterns to the identification of fingerprints. They look at their classmates' fingerprints, snowflakes, and "spectral fingerprints" of elements. They learn to identify each image as unique, yet part of a group containing recognizable similarities.
An illustration of the Pay for Performance model, as featured in section 8.4 of the Nursing Management and Professional Concepts textbook.
Hosted by Laura Ybarra, this episode will explore special education programs, resources and services in South Carolina to enable students with disabilities to access and progress in the general education setting.
This article describes how the lifestyle of Alaska's Inupiat people have changed over time, and the new challenges they now face as a result of a changing climate. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.